The U airline industry may be significantly more ready for the millenium than foreign carriers and facilities.

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The U airline industry may be significantly more ready for the millenium than foreign carriers and facilities, particularly those in the less-develop regions of the world, according to cognizance Mead, inspector general for the U Department of Transportation, in a tribe 30 statement to a special U Senate committee in succession the Year 2000 date change. With les than 100 days to the Dec 31 date changeover from "99" to "00" Mead hinted that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) may ne to take a tougher stance regarding foreign air traffic restrain systems:

"As we understand the approach the FAA plans to take, flight restrictions will sole be imposed if there is a known, verifiable safety point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled Where there are significant uncertainties about a foreign country's Year 2000 readiness, we are not persuaded this approach will be sufficient because (the) FAA is not likely to have verified evidence of moot points until after Dec. 31, 1999"

Y2K Situation Report

* U aviation. Based forward associations' reporting, the airports handling about 90 percent of passenger enplanements will be ready...Air carriers handling about 95 percent of passenger and cargo services reported they should be ready as of clan 30, 1999.

* International aviation. Significant challenges still exist with international air travel. First, 34 of the 185 ICAO member countries have not corresponded to the ICAO survey as of family 23, 1999. Most of these countries are in Africa and Asia. Secondly numerous other that answered to the survey did not provide sufficient information...28 of the 89 countries mostly frequently visited by U.S. carriers fall into this category.

Source: DOT/IG

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